Jason Langridge's WebLog - MR Mobile!

A had a call from a customer last week that was trying to create an SD Card that they could give to their field people which contained a series of applications they could install on their Pocket PC Phone device they carried. My colleague Marcus Perryman...

As I've previously said I'm probably not typical of the average Windows Mobile user as I tend to carry a lot of devices simply because customers want to see the breadth of our Windows Mobile device portfolio! Right now I'm carrying: a) (NEW) HTC Typhoon...

Having just got into Podcasts on my mobile device in a big way.. I was intrigued to find that PBS in the US are going to be distributing a series called Nerd TV http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/ Their schedule looks pretty interesting and you...

The Technet team have published a great article on how to secure Exchange Server 2003 with ISA and utilise the rules inside ISA for securing Exchange Activesync, RPC over HTTP and Outlook Web Access. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/isa...

Teachers in the Midlands in the UK are using Handheld devices to elimate administration in the school! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4230832.stm

I've been using this tool for some time now to keep my devices, cameras and memory cards up to data and to sync data between the various PC's in my house. It's finally been released to the Web. Definately worth a look if you need to synchronise information...

Expansys have released details of the iMate SP5 and SP5m devices. These are both Windows Mobile 5 devices with the 'm' signifying that the device has Music Buttons... (and will store more than 100 tracks ;) ) The 'm' version is the device on the left...

HandyEnt have done a great job of collating the various RSS feeds available for PDA's into a single OPML file. http://www.handyent.com/rss/ Obviously I'm dissapointed they haven't included my blog :( Maybe next time...

http://www.orange.co.uk/business/corporate/using/callmanagement/singlenumber.html One of the frustrations with using multiple devices is that you only ever have one number that you want people to call you on! Outside of switching SIMs in phones - this...

One of the additional benefits of the Security features in Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 is the potential it can provide in supporting personal devices in an Enterprise. By personal devices I'm referring to the devices that are not supplied by the Organisation...

Well I've been blogging for 1 month now. I got convinced to start bloggingby my colleague Eileen Brown who has a great blog http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown and is considered Queen Blogger here in Microsoft. One month in I've: 1) Had some great...

http://www.mseventseurope.com/msitforum/05/pre/content/default.aspx IT Forum 2005 is taking place this year in gorgeous Barcelona (my favourite city in Europe!) It's on 15-17th November this year and I've been asked to speak about Mobility - I've...

I've been watching the response to Apple's iTunes phone this week and it seems that it's really dissapointed lots of journalists and customers. A really interesting article appeared yesterday in Computing - http://www.computing.co.uk/vnunet/news/2142014...

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=111598 This is a fascinating webcast that Robert Scoble did with Bill Gates.. It's a great insight into Bills thoughts on Software, the past, the future and also blogging! If you listen carefully...

I had a comment on my previous post relating to the fact they suspected that Activesync used about 20MB of data per month and Blackberry only used 3MB. The Blackberry numbers are correct but the Activesync numbers are waaaayyyy out! Let me explain......

There are some rumours circulating that Nokia will release a Push Email solution for their devices to rival the Exchange SP2 and Blackberry solutions... http://geekswithblogs.net/wallabyfan/archive/2005/09/08/53162.aspx

My colleagues over at their Windows Mobile 4 Partners have highlighted a great solution one of our partners Infomill is now making available to Gas Engineers! Infomill, another great UK partner for Windows Mobile, has teamed up with Corgi to offer...

If you want to get your hands on an iMate JasJar then it looks like Expansys has them in stock. It could be at your house (in the UK) tomorrow :) i-mate JASJAR GSM/GPRS Pocket PC (Worldwide English) Home Page > Pocket PCs > i-mate JASJAR GSM...

A really interesting article appeared in ARC Chart http://www.arcchart.com/blueprint/show.asp?id=376 highlighting the HTC Tornado product which has WiFi integrated into the device. With the interest around VOIP it'll be intriguing to see how Mobile Operators...

It's here at last - after all the speculation - Apple finally announced the Motorola ROKR phone... http://www.apple.com/itunes/mobile/ I may be missing something here but - I'm underwhelmed by this announcement. The ROKR is missing the great...

MsMobiles.com published an article today ( http://msmobiles.com/news.php/4232.html ) claiming that myself and Mike Hall had our blogs censored removing articles linking to msmobiles.com. I'd like to be really clear that: 1) Our blogs are not censored...

Unwired.Net has discovered an O2 brochure in Germany that confirms O2's intention to launch the HTC Tornado and Wizard devices! http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=2634

The folks over at Mobile Review have done a fantastic review of the HTC Tornado... http://www.mobile-review.com/pda/review/htc-tornado-en.shtml

Many customers I talk with want to extend Group Policy to their Windows Mobile devices... right now this isn't supported in Windows Mobile however at our Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference I met up with the folks at Full Armor who provide a product...

At our Technet Event on Friday - I had many customers asking from Government organisations attend that were interested in deplouing Mobile Solutions. Most government organisations look to CESG for guidance on what approved solutions can/can't be deployed...